A train ride from Moscow to the arctic port city of Murmansk would not seem like the most likely setting for anything as warm as Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen's “Compartment No. 6." To Laura (Seidi ...

If a movie puts two strangers together in a new city, or en route to one, two words tend to come up in comparison. They are: “before” and “sunrise,” thanks to the first, Vienna-set meetup in Richard ...

Sometimes you can tell from the first shot. In “Compartment No. 6,” the camera follows a young woman at a party as she leaves a bathroom and enters a living room full of gathered friends. That walking ...

Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6,” in Russian and Finnish with English subtitles, starts as a road movie—a railroad movie—and threatens to become a darkly funny horror story. (It’s playing in ...

“Compartment No. 6” is both the name of director Juho Kuosmanen’s latest film and the setting for much of it — a tight car on a crumbling Russian train rumbling north through ice and snow. It’s where ...

A train ride from Moscow to the arctic port city of Murmansk would not seem like the most likely setting for anything as warm as Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6.” To Laura (Seidi ...

As any fan of “Before Sunrise” and its sequels can tell you, there’s nothing more romantically promising than two strangers on a train. That’s just one premise that’s simultaneously subverted and ...

Timing has not been kind to “Compartment No. 6.” Having enjoyed solid receptions at film festivals in 2021, this engaging if predictable film about mismatched travel mates on a Russian train was ...

Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, behind “Compartment No. 6” and “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki”– both awarded in Cannes – will now turn his attention to new series “Yours, Margot.” The ...

Strangers on a train, once again. But in this Cannes Grand Prix co-winner from Finland, set in post-Soviet Union Russia sometime during the late 1990s (there’s a fleeting reference to Titanic), its ...

The appeal of travel isn’t limited to geography. There’s that strange social alchemy whereby even very mismatched travelers, when thrown together by circumstance, can develop a bond. That alchemy ...

Seidi Haarla as Laura in the Finnish drama COMPARTMENT NO. 6. Photo credit Sami Kuokkanen/Aamu Film Company. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Two strangers on a train, a young Finnish woman (Seidi ...